Awards for Excellent Undergraduate and Graduate Students
The awards and honors listed below were announced at the dean's convocation, were personally celebrated at this year's zoomified senior luncheon. Here are this year's awardees:
The HERDER PRIZE for the best paper written by a student in their first or second year is shared by:
- Olivia Putnam (2nd Year) for her paper "Stoicism and the Emotions" (instructor Richard Kraut in PHIL 273-1, 'The Good Life')
- Carl Morison (2nd Year) for his paper "The Inadequacy of Hempel-Confirmation as a Coherent Solution to the Problem of Induction" (instructor Axel Mueller in PHIL 254, 'Introduction to the Philosophy of Natural Science')
The BRENTANO PRIZE for the best paper written by a student in their third or fourth year is awarded to:
- Matthew de La Paz (4th Year) for his paper "Socratic Intellectualism and Akrasia" (instructor Patricia Marechal in PHIL 310, 'Studies in Ancient Philosophy')
The DAVID HULL PRIZE for the best senior thesis of the academic year goes to:
- Bennett Eckert for his thesis "Controlling our Principles" (supervisor Kyla Ebels-Duggan)
The HONKOM's recommendation for HONORS WITH DISTINCTION IN PHILOSOPHY goes out to:
- Bennett Eckert for his excellent work in the honors program, high accomplishments as a philosophy major, and his highly accomplished work in the thesis "Controlling our Principles" (supervisor Kyla Ebels-Duggan)
- Jacob Gordon for his excellent work in the honors program, high accomplishments as a philosophy major, and his accomplished work in the thesis "On Moral Judgments: Acquisition, Structure, and Innateness" (supervisor Mark Alznauer)
The HONKOM's recommendation for HONORS IN PHILOSOPHY goes out to:
- Mason McVeigh for his very good work in the honors program, very good accomplishments as a philosophy major, and his accomplished work in the thesis "Power, Eros, and Liberation: An Analysis of Herbert Marcuse’s Aesthetic Theory" (supervisor Mark Alznauer)
The HONKOM wishes to acknowledge as an honorable mention
- Gabrielle Struik for her very good work in the honors program, good accomplishments in the philosophy major, and her committed and consistent work in the thesis "Setting People’s Lives Ablaze in Less Than 280 Characters: The Moral Implications of Online Public Shaming"
This year's STEPHEN TOULMIN PRIZE for the best GPA in philosophy for a graduating philosophy major (honoring superior overall achievement throughout all courses in their UG-career as major and amount of engagement in philosophy-courses) is awarded to:
- Bennett Eckert (with a record-setting number of courses and overall Toulmin number)
The LULA A. PETERSON PRIZE for exemplary citizenship is awarded to philosophy major honors students who have gone far beyond the call of duty in their functions and organizing activities to truly create atmospheric and social changes in our department. This year's award is shared by:
- Emma Eder & Isabella Rischall for their exemplary, exceptionally effective leadership and continuous energetic engagement as co-presidents of WiPhi and organizers of the Bussey lecture (which organization had to be aborted due to the pandemic), mediators of cooperations between all PHIL UG organizations (WiPhi, NUPS, Ethics Bowl), and their engagement in the crucial task of making formal studies equally accessible to all students regardless of disadvantages in their biography before coming to NU as Ruth Barcan Marcus tutors and informal student mentors.
The RUTH BARCAN MARCUS AWARD for tutoring in formal logic goes to:
- Emma Eder & Isabella Rischall
The THOMAS A. McCARTHY AWARD for Excellence in Teaching by a Philosophy graduate student Teaching Assistant is awarded to:
- Kasey Hettig-Rolfe
Many congratulations to all of our exemplary students awardees for their accomplishments!
Photo Gallery: Student Award Recipients
